Jazz Nursery 27/04/17

Pleased to get this nice review from great American jazz critic Scott Yanow. Album still available here!

Born in 1928, Hampton Hawes was a pianist from Los Angeles who played with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Wardell Gray and Art Pepper. I just finished reading his autobiography, Raise Up Off Me, written with Don Asher, himself a jazz pianist as well as an author. I’d rate it as perhaps my favourite book about…

I have recently been listening to and reading about the work of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, one of the great writing partnerships of the American Songbook.

I’m really looking forward to playing a set at the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston this Tuesday 1st August, opening for incredible pianist and fellow Norfolk boy Kit Downes. Can’t wait to hear Kit’s set – he’ll be joined by Sam Lasserson on bass and Colin Stranahan, who’s over from New York, on drums. I’m playing with Conor Chaplin…

Looking forward to what should be a very fun tour with my good friend, the great guitarist Linus Eppinger. After a quick pit-stop in Hamburg, we’ll be off to the Netherlands for gigs in Breda (at the Jazz Festival), Amsterdam, The Hague and Leiden. See the tour poster below. We’ll be playing with a few…

Michael Kanan is coming over from New York this January for another tour! Can’t wait to play with him again. We’re playing together in Europe for the first time too – as well as the UK we have gigs in Switzerland and Holland. We’ll be doing a mixture of duo, trio and quartet performances so…